Mother’s Day Prayer Service 2023
Today we celebrated our mothers and the special people in our lives. It was wonderful to have so many join our students for a Prayer Service in the classrooms.
We understand that not all our Mums were able to join us. Below is the Mother’s Day Prayer Service that families may like to pray together.
Mother’s Day Prayer Service 2023
Year 4 Mater Christi Taster Day
Our time at Mater Christi was so much fun, all of the girls in year 4 had a blast! We played with mini robots, made slime and even explored the school and answered questions too.
When we first arrived at Mater Christi we used these mini robots that you had to control with an Ipad. You could change its colour and make it go wherever you wanted. For morning tea they gave us popcorn and juice.The highlight of the day was visiting the really cool science lab where we made slime but before we could make the slime we had to wear a lab coat and safety goggles. After we made the slime, some year 7s gave us this marker and told us to write on the sink then put the slime on top and the writing from the marker vanished on to the slime.
Towards the end of the day we played monopoly scavenger hunt ‘Mater Christi version’. We had to go around the school and answer lots of questions and the students were able to decide which classrooms to visit. . At the end of the visit we received a goodie bag.
The year 4 girls had such a fun time we wished we could go there again.
Asha, Vivienne and Aryana
Year 4 St. Joseph’s College Taster Day
At St. Joseph’s we did lots of sport in the big hall, we also did science, STEM and music lessons. It is a really good school, every time we went into a room someone new would greet us! Jackson.
Last week we attended St. Joseph’s College, we did STEM and sport classes. In sport we played basketball games called Golden Child and Popcorn. In STEM we made rockets and tested them in a rocket contest, Harrison and I came in last place. We had a great time! Brodie.
When we attended St. Joseph’s College we attended the science class and learnt about elements and we also looked through a black light box to see how light is broken into different colours of the rainbow. Then we looked into different tubes which contained elements like sodium, neon and hydrogen gas. The teacher also showed us how he could shoot a laser into a mirror and then it bounced off onto the target. Owen.
Maths – Data Unit
One of the Maths topics we have been learning about in the 5/6 Level has been about Data. We learned about how you can use a tally chart to help keep an accurate summary and how we can present this information in a variety of different graphs. Some of the different graphs we have learnt about so far include a bar graph, column graph, line graph and stem and leaf plot.
One of our data surveys was based around collecting data about birthdays where we got to survey other students in the 5/6 level. We all tallied the data then presented this information into one of the graphs we learnt about. We finally posted these surveys on Seesaw for our families to see.
Overall, everyone enjoyed participating in our Data unit and learning about some of the different types of graphs
Here are a couple of photos of our work from our Data unit.
Government in 5/6
In our 5/6 level we have been learning about the different types and levels of Government for our Inquiry unit. Some of the different topics we have learnt about include the different levels of Government (Local, State and Federal) and the different houses of Federal Government which are The House Of Representatives (Green House) and the Senate (Red House). We also learnt about how laws are made and that there is an incredible 4500 rooms in Parliament House.
To demonstrate our learning of this topic the 5/6 students created a presentation showcasing what we had learnt. Some students completed a poster and other completed a slide show.
Here is some of the work from 5/6 Red.
Enjoy!
Year 3 Reconciliation
Year 4 Camp Adanac
Buddy Breakfast 2023
Last Thursday (March 30th), our Year 6’s and Preps came to school early along with their families for Buddy Breakfast. This event is a special opportunity for everyone to get to know each other and enjoy some yummy food together. One of the most special parts of our Buddy Breakfast is when the year 6 students present their Prep buddy with a special ‘Buddy Bear’. The purple buddy bear is an initiative from the Alannah & Madeline Foundation that helps to let every student know how special they are in our HT / St. Mary’s community. Many year 6 students still have their purple ‘Buddy Bear’ which is a symbol of how special the prep / year 6 buddy relationship is.
Overall, everyone really enjoyed our buddy breakfast and are thankful for the opportunity to gather together.
Here are some of the photos from the day ……
Prep – Yr4 Swimming
Each Friday this term there has been lots of excitement amongst our Prep to Year 4 students as they have been have been participating in swimming lessons at Swim World in Glen Waverley. Each week the students dress with their swimming costumes underneath their school clothes. At their allocated time each class gets ready by putting on their swimming caps and goggles and then they go on the bus to Swim World.
During swimming lessons the students have been learning a variety of skills including floating, water safety techniques and practising the different swimming strokes.
Last Friday, the students brought along some old clothes to wear in the pool to practise what a person should do if they were to fall into the water. The students seem to really enjoy this adventure!
Overall, the students are having a great time at their swimming lessons and are looking forward to the last fun lesson this Friday.
Here are a few photos of the students in action …..
NAPLAN 2023
Recently the students in Year 3 and 5 have just completed NAPLAN which stands for National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy. NAPLAN is a combination of four tests including reading, writing, language conventions to mathematics. This year NAPLAN was completed online ou our school Chromebooks.
Even though some students got a bit nervous about completing these tests they were encouraged to do their best and most people did that.
Overall, we are thankful for the support that so many teachers and LSO’s provided and a big thanks goes to Mr. Kumar for his organisation of NAPLAN for all of our students.
CEM Art Show online Link
The Catholic Education Melbourne Visual Art Exhibition can be viewed online by clicking on this link. If you click on individual photos in the online catalogue more artwork photos can be viewed.
https://sites.google.com/macs.vic.edu.au/creative-arts-exhibition-2023/home
There is some wonderful work including our students. It is definitely worth viewing.
5/6 Camp
One of the most exciting parts of being in the 5/6 Level is going on camp. This year the 5/6’s didn’t have to wait too long as we were able to attend camp in the first few weeks of this term.
Our bus trip to camp took about 3 hours and when our buses arrived we were welcomed by staff at Camp Coonawarra. After unpacking the Coonawarra staff explained about where the different areas of the camp were and when the different eating times took place. After lunch we were excited to begin our super fun activities. Some of the different rotational activities were raft building, canoeing, giant swing, flying fox, the labyrinth, rock climbing, high ropes as well as damper making and pool activities.
Another exciting part of camp is when we were able to spend some time in our cabins. Most students ran to claim a top bunk and then we spent some time with our other cabin roommates.
Another highlight of camp was the night time activities. On one night we went for a night walk and another night we watched a movie!
After three days and two nights of some of the best experiences of our life we travelled back to school with many fun stories to share with our families.
Overall, our 5/6 Camp to Coonawarra was amazing and we are thankful to all the staff and families for providing us with this wonderful opportunity to go on camp.
Here are some of the photos from camp:
Camp Photos Google Doc
Here is the slide show of camp photos shown at Friday’s Assembly ….
Assembly Camp Photos Google Slides
Catholic Education Melbourne Visual Art Exhibition 2023
Congratulations to the following students whose work is being exhibited at the 2023 Visual Art Exhibition.
Likana Bernardo Year 3
Nicky Tervakis Year 5
Amelia Frodshom Year 5
Elizabeth Younan Year 5
Matthew Hua Year 5
Rafael Godressi Year 5
Diviyani Raghvani and Bailee Egan
Xavier Mallia and their Tazio Gabriel Ronchi
Details to view the show in person are as follows
Catholic Education Melbourne Visual Art Exhibition 2023
Location
Catholic Leadership Centre – 576 Victoria Parade, East Melbourne, VIC
Exhibition opening times
The exhibition will be open on the following dates and times to schools and families:
Tuesday 14 – Friday 17th March from 9am – 3.45pm with extended hours on Wednesday 15th to 17th from 9am – 3.45pm
Saturday 18th March 11am – 3.45pm
Exhibition booking system
Those planning on attending will need to book a session through this link.
It’s all about Colour, Colour, Colour in the Artroom
Garden Club
Over the school holidays the garden has grown like crazy! Especially the zucchinis! Some giant ones grew, as can be seen in the photos. I’d like to say a special thank you to Sharon Hunter for watering the garden over the holidays. Without her assistance, the garden wouldn’t be growing as well. As you can see from the photos the tomatoes, zucchinis and pumpkins are all growing very well.
Happy Library Lover’s Day!
Congratulations Year 6
On Friday, the Year 6 students were presented with their jackets and school leader pins at assembly. They were extremely excited to finally receive them and immediately put them on with beaming smiles of pride. We hope that they become a symbol of their leadership and learning journey in their final year of Primary School.
Congratulations to those Year 6 students who were elected as our school Leaders for 2023. We know that you will represent Holy Trinity spiritedly, and exemplify what it means to be a part of the Holy Trinity school community.
🎄Christmas Carols Night🎄
Carols night was an amazing, fun experience for everyone with lots of singing and dancing. It was a perfect event to get the whole of the Holy Trinity and St. Mary’s community into the holiday Christmas spirit. It was an event we have been waiting for a long time and with COVID affecting the past two years we have not been able to gather for concerts. Not only was this the first school carols night for our Prep students but also for our year one and two students. Our carols night took place on the basketball court instead of the oval due to the ongoing rain we had been having throughout the week.
Each year level did an amazing job with their performance and everyone’s Christmas outfits were fabulous. It was a nice way to farewell our year 6s and the departing staff and students.
Thank you to Seniora Formichelli for all her hard work with helping us to prepare for the evening and to her family for helping to set up all the sound equipment so that everyone could get into the spirit of the night.
Twilight Sports
On Thursday 1st December, Holy Trinity and St Mary’s students and families gathered for our annual Twilight Sports. Bunarong (Yellow), Mackay(Blue), Dominic (Red) and MacKillop(Green) competed in various events to win the overall Twilight Sports shield for 2022.
It was a fantastic night with everyone thoroughly enjoying the opportunity to gather again after missing out on Twilight Sports since 2020.
The final event of the evening was where the year 6s ran the Fran Rascas run. This is a special race held just for the year 6 students who run around the school to remember Fran Raskas who was a parent who did a lot for our school community many years ago. The overall winners of the Fran Rascas race were Nathan for the boys race and Abbey won the girls race.
At the end of the evening MacKillop was announced as the overall winners of the event. Well done everyone in the MacKillop team!
Thank you to all the parents, staff and especially Mr. D for helping to organise such an enjoyable event for everyone.
By Zac and Sean
Here are some of the photos from our Twilight Sports evening …